COS - New SkyWest domicile...

[theskyking]

I have it on good authority that the reason we opened COS was due to mx. Air Wiskey didn't want us doing anything more than line mx in ORD and they just happened to have a hanger in COS. So to keep our mx out of ORD, they gave us their hanger in COS for a very reasonable price.

 

[CHIEEEEFS]

SkW MX

The other 'Eastern" MX base is a race between FSD and ICT.

ICT has a lead in the race right now and Bombardier has facities there. The people in ICT do know this and are not playing cheap.

Remember, where theres MX theres a crew base.

 

[Smoked Toilet]

How will this effect ORD growth - will there no longer be the 70-90 flights a day out of ord by the end of the year?

 

[IP076]

How will this effect ORD growth - will there no longer be the 70-90 flights a day out of ord by the end of the year?

I'd say that any of these base openings, won't affect the amount of daily departures from ORD. It will affect where the crews come from for those depatures though. Works the same as any of the other bases, it seems SkyWest likes to have bases at the outstations...FAT, SAN, PSP, SMF, TUS, and now COS...of course, there are always exceptions...DEN, ORD, and SLC...

 

[General Lee]

I think Skywest is starting this base for the mx base they are buying from Air Whisky. I bet most of the broken planes in ORD will fly passenger flights to COS and get fixed overnight. Air Whisky will probably be full at their ORD or APE mx hangers--so Skywest had to look for an alternative. But, will the DEN bases be drawn down a bit?

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[Socalplt]

ORD still seems to be growing. Another RJ class with with 20 captains all going to ORD starts on June 9th. I'd imagine there will be just as many FO's in it. With the transfers that will put ORD at 40+ crews by August. Managenment was saying 55 crews by the end of the year a month ago.

With the 40+ aircraft coming in the next 9 months or so, I'd guess DEN and SLC won't lose any flying. The California domiciles on the other hand -- who knows what will happen.

 

[roadrunner]

All of these little outstation domiciles are just going to make the already lousy schedules even worse. In DEN all we get is 18 or 19 hour credit 4 day trips. The flying will be so spread out that it will just mean less chance to build any variety into the lines, except in SLC of course, where they still have a little bit of everything. I've heard the FSD/ ICT rumour too, which would most certainly take more of DEN's flying.

 

[jrod]

General Lee is right on about the mx. AWAC is buying hangar space @ ORD and selling our COS mx hangar to SkyWest. It's primarily a consolidation due to reduced flying out of DEN for the RJ's. MKE and ORD will handle most of the regular RJ work and ATW will still be the primary 146 mx stop.